MUSKEGON, MI – The PBA Herbalife Central Open held at
Sherman Bowling Center this past weekend featured a thrilling finish.

The PBA regional tour event, presented by local PBA member
Kevin Bostrom and MOTIV, went down to the final match-play game Sunday.

Mason's Larry Verble used a huge finish to surge past Trenton's
Craig Nidiffer in the final game to win by just 16 pins.

The top two finishers squared off in the final match of the 12-game, round-robin match-play format, and Verble bested Nidiffer to earn the 30-pin
bonus and sneak past Nidiffer, 4,778-4,762, for what is believed to be his first
win in more than a decade.

"It was an exciting finish to the tournament," Bostrom said.
"It's Larry's fourth title, and I think it's his first since 1997, so it was a
pretty emotional win for him."

Verble was in fifth place after the 8-game qualifying round
on Saturday, 61 pins behind Nidiffer.

In all, 12 bowlers advanced to the round-robin match-play
portion of the tournament, but Verble proved to be the only one who could track
Nidiffer down as he won 9-of-12 matches.

Nidiffer, who went
8-4 in match play, was in control most of the way until a 139 game in his 11th
match allowed Verble to draw close enough to overcome him in the final match.

Nidiffer still could have held Verble off if he struck in
the 10th frame, but he opened instead. Verble won $2,300 for first place while
Nidiffer won $1,200.

The event was bowled on an oil pattern called "Chameleon".

"It was pretty tough," said Bostrom, who finished 35th.
"It was scoreable, but tough. "Your shot didn't last long, but the lanes held up
nicely."

The event drew 41 participants, including several local
bowlers.

Kentwood's Chad Reiffer and Grandville's Aaron Groendyk,
both of whom work at the Sherman Pro Shop, qualified for match play and
finished 11th and 12th, respectively. Reiffer was in second place after qualifying, but went just 1-11 in
match play. Groendyk was 11th after qualifying.

"Things went really well," Bostrom said. "I didn't finish
very well, but everything went smoothly and we had a decent turnout. There
weren't as many bowlers as we were hoping for, but considering there were other
tournaments going on it wasn't bad. The sweeper Friday had a pretty good
turnout."